Improvement in chain-pumps



NTTED STATES PATENT Qrrrcn.

GEORGE BLYTHE, OF GHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIN-PUMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,401, dated August 22, 1876; application filed May 27, 1876.

To all whom it may concern g are recessed in the middle so as to form guides A C is also provided with rigidly-attached blocks Be it known that I, GEORGE BLYTHE, of i c e. Theifblocks of these guidese e are slightly Chillicothe, in the county of Livingston and notched at f'f. The chain F is provided at State of Missouri, have invented a new and suitable intervals with T-shaped plates G. valuable Improvement in GhainPumps; and i The. shank g of each one of said plates G is I do hereby declare that the following is a I adapted to lie between the guides c c on wheel full, clear, and exact description of the con- (J, and the cross-pieces g g' of said T- shaped struction and operation of the same, reference g plates G are adapted to catch into notches f being had to the annexed drawings, making f ou the backs of guides c e. By these dea part of this specification, and to the letters 1 vices the dipping-buckets f f are kept always and figures of reference marked thereon. vin a proper position. The water is regularly Figure l of the drawingI is a representation I poured out of the buckets f f into the cells c of a vertical central section of my chain-4 i c, as each one of said buckets, successively, pump, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. reachthe highest point of its revolution, and This invention relates to chain pumps for the water is discharged from the cells c c into raising and discharging liquids; and it conthe hopper B as each one of said cells c c sists in the peculiar construction of a cellular i reaches the lowest point of its revolution. discharging-wheel, and in the means employed l What I claim as new, and desire to secure for attaching thereto the chain which carries by Letters Patent, isthe bucket, as hereinafter particularly set! 1. Wheel C, provided with cells c c and forth and claimed.- guides e e, which are notched at f f', sub- In the accompanying drawings, A desigstantially as and for the purpose set forth. nates the frameof the pump, within which is 2. Wheel C, provided with cells c c, and Xed the V-shaped receiver B,tl1at discharges notched guides e c, in combination with buckthe raised water through a tube, b. Within et-chain F, provided with T-shaped plates G, and near the top of the frame A is journaled g as and for the purpose set forth. a wheel, C, which is operated by a crank, D, Intestimony that I claim the above I have and which carries a chain, F, and buckets f hereunto subscribed my name in the presence The periphery of wheel C is provided of two witnesses. with cells c c, which resemble somewhat the l A shape and arrangement of cells or buckets of l GEORGE BLYTHE an overshot-wheel. The periphery of wheel i Witnesses:

JAs. W. MABURY, BARON T. DALY.

d, as shown in Fig. l of the drawing, which 

